"This is a job, more so than my school-work,"McClelland says.

Last Sunday was the longest day of rehearsal.It was the beginning of "wet tech"--in whichtechnical elements such as light and sound wereslowly introduced into the play. At noon the castcommenced the three-hour production, which draggedon until midnight because of stops and starts tocoordinate lighting and sound.

Some actors express dissatisfaction with havingto be at rehearsal all day, even when theircharacter was not on stage.

"There's no reason why I should be heretonight," Parris says as she snuggled under ablanket in the Loeb's "Green Room" on Sundaynight. She soon went back to sleep.

Short-Staffed

The "Richard III" crew was forced to worklonger hours than usual in part because of acampus-wide shortage of students experienced intheater work.

Set designer Daniel O'Connell Scully '99 becamea "de facto" technical director when a permanentone could not be found. He estimates that he hasnow spent at least 200 hours working on the show.

Co-producer Harrington attributes the failureto find a permanent technical director to ashortage of "TDs" on campus.

"For the most part, most of the people thatcould have done it were already busy," he says.

As a result, Scully, co-producer Elizabeth H.Feakins '99, Harrington and others picked up theslack in building the set.

"While we don't have a TD per se, we do havepeople fulfilling the roles of a TD in addition totheir other roles with the show," Harrington says.

Starting with load-in on April 18, tech workhad been done at the Loeb. But the productionprocess began long before that. The producers hadan initial meeting with Packer in December, andScully met with Packer in January to discusspotential designs.

Harrington says he has spent six to 10 hoursworking on the show each day during the past twoweeks. Though Harrington is not "on call" atspecific times like the actors, he said he has tobe prepared to do something for the show at alltimes.

"Producers are like a doctor, you're on call 24hours," seven days a week, he says.

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